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Extinct Languages

Author: Johannes Friedrich, translated into English by Frank Gayn
Keywords: extinct languages; cuneiform; Egyptian hieroglyphs; Etruscan; linear B; Hittite language; Akkadian language; Sumerian language
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copyright 1957, written originally in German, translated by Frank Gayn into English. Scanned at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis by Michael Schwing, student, who believes the copyright is expired (although two publishers have printed the book includin Dorset Press Hardcover in 1995. This work is NOT by Michael Schwing, but is a very informative though partially outdated book on ancient extinct languages

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Reviewer: MikeSchwing - - January 1, 2013
Subject: Thank you aibek
Thank you aibek for a good summary of the book

Reviewer: aibek - - January 1, 2013
Subject: thanks
The original book is titled: Entzifferung Verschollener Schriften und Sprachen [“Decipherment of Extinct Scripts and Languages”]. Tr. from the German original by Frank Gaynor.

The title of the English translation is bad. The book is not about extinct languages or scripts, but their decipherment. The author covers a broad area on that topic.

The book is to be read sequentially -- it is not a collection of essays.

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Outlines of the table of contents:

I. The Three Great Decipherments in the Study of the Ancient Orient: 1. The Egyptian Hieroglyphics, 2. Cuneiform Writing, 3. The Hittite Hieroglyphic Writing. [100 pp.]

II. The Decipherment and Study of Other Scripts and Languages of the Old World: 1. (Lycian, Lydian, Side, Numidian), 2. (Cypriote, Proto-Byblic), 3. (Etruscan, other languages of Italy, Phrygian) [50 pp.]

III. Principles of the Methodology of the Decipherment of Extinct Scripts and Languages. [8 pp.]

IV. A Few Examples of Undeciphered Scripts. [11 pp.]

Appendix and Index.
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About the files uploaded by Mr Schwing: the corresponding ‘cropped’ files are better in all respects.

Reviewer: philly_bob - - December 6, 2012
Subject: Problem with scan III
I was rating the first scan, not the document. Perhaps the review system should make it more clear which you're rating.

I actually used some images from the scan on my website, www.philly-bob.net/pdindex.htm, under "Dead Languages Live." Which is about the highest rating I can give.

Thanks again, Mike.

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